Ohio’s Concealed-Carry Law Parsed as Court Upholds Conviction

Ohio authorities can prohibit citizens from carrying concealed weapons if they’re able to openly carry guns, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

The Ohio Court of Appeals, First District rejected a Second Amendment challenge by a man facing an illegal concealed-carry charge. His arguments failed because Ohio had a good reason for restricting how people can carry guns, Judge Candace C. Crouse said.

“As applied to individuals who remain legally allowed to carry firearms openly, Ohio’s CCW statutes ‘impose a comparable burden on the right of armed self-defense’ as that imposed by laws of the past,” Crouse wrote for ...